I was servicing another laptop the other day, when I found out a typical pattern in the old laptops I was servicing; they are all clogged.
A typical complain is that the laptop starts to shut down on its on after a few hours or even seconds after start up. Instead of panicking about a virus attack, blaming Barrack Obama or thinking you have chosen a cheapskate brand, try to look INSIDE the laptop.Like humans, laptops grow old and gather dust as they age. What we need is to dissemble it and go to the life source of the laptop: the heat sink.
Basically the heat sink is where your internal cooling fan is located. If it's clogged with dust, the laptop is unable to cool itself and eventually die of a heat stroke.
Fixing it is simple. Simply reach the heat sink (personally or via professional assistance, lots of screw to unscrew) and use toothpick or cotton bud to prick out the collected dust at the heat sink (see picture, that one is the size of a Kit Kat bar). Just like a standing fan, after cleaning off all the dust the laptop should return to 100% operational capability. If you want to learn how to dismantle and reach the heat sink, just Google "how to disassemble (laptop model)" e.g. "how to disassemble HP nx6120"
So don't trade in that old laptop just yet, just show it some love and unclog its arteries and be amazed as it becomes 2-3 years younger :)
1 comment:
i can guarantee mind got at least a pack of Kit-kat in there~ judging by how much dust i clean jst on the surface every week (and i never clean the inner since me don't dare to do 'operation' on it on my own~ thanks to winter, it didn't suffer any heat stroke. (yet)
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